About David Post

David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also a Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Fellow of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and a contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog. Professor Post is the author of In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford, 2009) (see http://jeffersonsmoose.org), a Jeffersonian view of Internet law and policy described as “beautifully written [and] astonishing” (Lawrence Lessig), “brilliant, and a joy to read” (Jonathan Zittrain), and “an authentic work of genius, conceived and written in the finest Jeffersonian spirit” (Sean Wilentz). He is also co-author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2007) (with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia), and numerous scholarly articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and complexity theory. He has been a regular columnist for the American Lawyer and InformationWeek, a commentator on the Lehrer News Hour, Court TV’s Supreme Court Preview, NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC’s World, and recently was featured in the PBS documentary The Supreme Court. After receiving a Ph.D. in physical anthropology, he taught in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University before attending Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, after which he then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court (1993-94), before joining the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 – 1997) and then Temple University Law School (1997 – present). Professor Post’s writings can be accessed online at .

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Kryptonite!

By David Post on March 20, 2006 4:24 pm

I must admit that I am still stunned about George Mason advancing to the Sweet Sixteen. And beating two teams from last year’s Final Four in the process. And playing Wichita State–who we beat just a few weeks ago on Bracket Buster Saturday in Wichita. GMU did a pretty good job holding Paul Miller in […]

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Sticking it to the man:

By David Post on March 19, 2006 1:12 pm

Italy, as you may know, is in the midst of a general election (voting is on April 9th), and it’s a pretty interesting campaign. I can’t say that I always understand what’s going on — my Italian’s getting better, but I’m a bit like a 2d grader reading the New York Times: a lot gets […]

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George Mason Advances!

By David Post on March 18, 2006 9:54 am

Props to George Mason for a dominating victory over Michigan State last night. And it was great for Jim Larranaga to prevail despite suspending Tony Skinn. In the world of modern college sports it is great to see a guy do the right thing and still win. The hardest part was being away from my […]

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Apropos of the infamous cartoons:

By David Post on February 27, 2006 7:41 am

A light(er) note to CartoonGate: the Israeli publishers of Dimona Comix in Tel-Aviv have announced their own contest for anti-Semitic cartoons drawn by Jews. “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew-hating cartoons ever published!” one of the two publishers, Amitai Sandy, was quoted as saying: “No Iranian will beat […]

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The Sound of One Hard Drive Failing:

By David Post on February 15, 2006 6:43 am

Listen to this — it’s the winning entry in a competition to make the most interesting musical track based entirely on sounds made by failing hard drives on Hitachi computers. [Hitachi, it turns out, had posted the various sounds its failing drives make as a troubleshooting guide for users . . .] Seriously. See the […]

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Intolerant of Intolerance:

By David Post on February 7, 2006 9:54 am

This spectacle of mobs in various Muslim countries turning violent against the Danes (and, in some places, other Scandinavians) because of the publication of several nasty anti-Muslim cartoons in a Danish newspaper has a peculiar kind of viciousness and idiocy behind it. Forgive me, but my strong suspicion is that the folks who have burned […]

Funny NY Times Headline:

By David Post on February 7, 2006 8:03 am

Column A1, today’s Times: “Record Sales of Sleep Pills Cause Worry.” Funny, I would’ve thought it was the other way ’round . . .

When is Copyright Infringement like a Broken Leg?:

By David Post on February 3, 2006 8:39 am

According to an article in the Mudville Gazette, the Army has been distributing a photograph (of a US Army major cradling a girl killed by terrorists) taken by photographer Mike Yon, and that Yon has threatened the Army with a copyright infringement lawsuit. The Army’s response is interesting: it claims that the standard liability waiver […]

Google-in-China:

By David Post on February 1, 2006 3:56 pm

Google has now offically announced that it has launched a new Chinese version of Google (google.cn) and that, in doing so, it has “agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results.” You can read for yourself, in Andrew McLaughlin’s posting, Google’s justification for doing so (and for thereby joining Microsoft, and Yahoo!, in […]

Happy Birthday to You:

By David Post on January 27, 2006 7:13 am

Today, as you’re no doubt aware, marks Mozart’s 250th birthday, and the world is awash in Mozartian sound – surely a good thing, ceterus paribus, a net plus for our universe compared to the alternate universe identical to ours in all details except it doesn’t celebrate Mozart’s birthday. It has always bugged me a little […]

Good Night and Good Luck:

By David Post on January 12, 2006 10:05 am

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton?” Really, yesterday’s exchange between Sen. Schumer and Judge Alito was embarrassing. Senators are never less appealing than when they lay on the sanctimony and feigned shock; “Why oh why,” Schumer kept repeating, “did you choose, out of all the […]

Check it out before the copyright cops shut it down:

By David Post on December 13, 2005 10:12 am

James Enck has written a lament for telecommunications policy — really — using this truly spectacular tool provided by Swedish radio. [Just type some text in the box and hit “play” to hear your “song” …]. A clear violation, alas, of copyright law, and I’m sure some copyright lawyer out there is on the case, […]

In Search of Jefferson’s Moose:

By David Post on December 13, 2005 10:03 am

So a couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at NY Law School (where I’ve been visiting this past semester) about the book project (“In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace”) I’ve been working on for a while. The basic idea is to re-create Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of […]

Lyrics Websites Targeted in Lawsuits:

By David Post on December 12, 2005 5:50 pm

According to a story in the London Telegraph, the UK music industry (led by the publisher Warner Chappell)has targeted Internet song lyrics websites for copyright infringement actions. “We’re fed up with internet entrepreneurs ‘ripping off’ songs – from perennial favourites such as Happy Birthday and Rhapsody in Blue to the music of Madonna and Sir […]

Those Fantasy Drafters Strike Again:

By David Post on December 12, 2005 4:29 pm

Those wacky folks at the fantasy draft blog (Motto: “Fed up with those pesky sports fantasy drafts? We’ve decided to hold fantasy drafts of everything else”], not content to waste their time on drafting breakfast cereals, TV sitcoms, brands of beer, and the like, recently held a Constitutional Amendments draft. Commentary — as always, there’s […]

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